A Kentucky man accused of strangling his wife is poised to claim excessive caffeine from sodas, energy drinks and diet pills left him so mentally unstable he couldn’t have knowingly killed her…
Woody Will Smith, 33, is scheduled for trial starting today on a murder charge in the May 2009 death of Amanda Hornsby-Smith, 28.
Defense attorney Shannon Sexton filed notice with the Newport court of plans to argue his client ingested so much caffeine in the days leading up to the killing that it rendered him temporarily insane — unable even to form the intent of committing a crime…
Reports and case records say during that time, he was drinking five or six soft drinks and energy drinks a day, along with taking diet pills; it all added up to more than 400 milligrams of caffeine a day.
Prosecutor Michelle Snodgrass said Smith tested negative for amphetamine-type substances shortly after the killing…
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — published by the American Psychiatric Association showing standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders — defines overdose as more than 300 mg. That’s about three cups of coffee.
More than three cups of coffee classifies you as loony, overdosed on coffee?
Har! That explains the behavior of half the geeks in the world.
OK caffeine makes you hyper but not crazy. Sorry man, but you’ll have to come up with something better to get out of murder.
Why not give it a try?
The Twinkie defense got the gay guy in San Francisco his walking papers.
This type of defense has been tried before.
Look up Dan White and the twinkie defense.
Things did not go well with Dan White.
Things will not go well with this guy either.
… on the next episode of As the White Trash Burns.
The lack of caffeine does the same thing!
Defendant tries to escape sentence with ridiculous defense argument. That never happens, lawyers all over America will be shocked when they read this piece, that’s why it’s news worthy.
Right?
Get between me and my coffee and see if you live….
Did you know that coffee consumption in China is less than 1 cup per person per year?
I’ve cut my consumption down to about 1 cup per week. It wasn’t that hard to do.
OK, I can understand it if he hadn’t had any coffee that day — that’s justifiable homicide.
But too much coffee? That’s unpossible!
wow then what the hell are politicians taking??
Caffine…. Ya right!
Next you’ll try and tell me the recession is over.
Oh brother!
See my theory is Caffeine will be the next tobacco. Never mind salt, and booze. Caffeine/Coffee will be the next “bad” substance that people are consuming. Somebody will figure out how caffeine effects other people negitivtly, like how 2nd hand smoke causes cancer for people who aren’t smoking. I guess murder is a good one.
Now why can’t they use HFCS as a scapegoat for murder so we can get this shit off the market?
If you get drunk and kill somebody in a fight they still don’t let you walk away free.
If I thought he was really freaking out on the stuff it might buy him life without parole rather than crispy critter.
Fry him. And the lawyer.
You know she wouldn’t STFU!
300 mg (3 cups) is an overdose?
No wonder the bodies are piling up around the house.
This seems just like the old, “I was so drunk, I didn’t know what I was doing.”
I don’t think that flies very often in courts, does it?
But, enough caffeine would be like meth, right? Seems like it could mess you up but I doubt it would make you lose your ability to perceive right from wrong, which I think is the standard for the insanity defense.
I Surpass 400 mg’s or caffine before 11 am :-S
And I keep drinking.. !
I need 300 mg of caffeine so I can knowingly scratch my own ass.